I'm Still In Love With My High School Sweetheart

I’m Still In Love With My High School Sweetheart

Ask Your Friend…Ask Your Shrink: A mother is questioning her relationship and if a past love is her Mr. Right.

-Libby Keatinge and Dr. Morris Halperin

Dear Libby and Dr. Halperin,

I am struggling to make a choice. I am now in a serious relationship and have been for almost 4 years now. Him and I have a 1-year-old son together whom we love to death. Our relationship developed fast and it was very passionate at first. He is the most amazing, caring, loving, honest, and hard working person I’ve ever met. Quite the catch! Yet, there’s something that makes me wonder if I’m with the right man.

Back in high school I had my high school sweetheart. We had been together for almost 5 years(from my sophomore year in high school to my sophomore year in college). We were very private with our relationship and never really made public appearances together. We wanted our relationship to be only for us and no one else. Him and I ended in good terms and have remained in contact.

We’ve recently talked about how much we wish we could go back to the times when we were together and happy; he says he’d do anything to start a new beginning with me and would even care for my son as his own. I still have a close relationship with his family and they’d love to see us together again, but how do I know this will last? How do I know that this is the real thing and that this will truly make me happy? How do I handle having another man care for my son? I still have strong feelings towards my current boyfriend and father to our son. However, I feel that the love I have for him is the type of love I have for my best friend. I enjoy his company and love him dearly, but the comeback of my ex has been killing me on the inside. What should I do? Do I do what is best for my son and his father? Or should I take a chance and follow what I believe might be my happy ending?

Libby says:Dear California, I think the focus needs to be on your current relationship and how you really feel before you make any sudden moves. Think about your relationship if the high school sweetheart did not exist. Are you truly happy? Would you want to be with this man?

When someone is thinking of someone else, they are not truly complete and happy in their relationship. If you decide that you are not truly happy, then you have the question of dating the high school sweetheart. What will the living arrangements be? What if it doesn’t work out? Think about the effect it could have on your son.

There is a chance that you could rekindle your romance with your high school sweetheart, but then it will not pan out the way you planned. Will you be devastated? Will you be ok on your own?

I think you need to consider all the ways that this could pan out and consider all the options and if you would be comfortable with a variety of endings. If you are sure that the relationship you are in is not your dream relationship, and you are merely “friends” then you should chase your dream. However, all relationships eventually fade to less heat and passion then the first few months, so then you need to ask yourself, would you want to be with your high school sweetheart if the hot and heavy feelings burn out? What if you end up alone? Is that ok too?

Have a serious conversation with yourself and answer all these questions before you decide to do anything. And, of course, consider what is best for the health and happiness of your son.

11 thoughts on “I'm Still In Love With My High School Sweetheart”

When I read that you wanted to keep the relationship private, that made me wonder who made that decision? To me, that’s a red flag. Most people want to shout it to the rooftops that they have found someone who loves them. If he was the one who made the initial decision- guys generally do that so they can play the field- I wouldn’t go back to him. Unless of course, you want to spend your life pretending to the world that you’re single. And then, I’d wonder why you think so little of yourself to do that.
I’m siding with the doc.

This is such a tough one! I was in the same exact situation in high school with my sweetheart, but we ended up breaking up. He married a girl he liked in jr. high and they have been married for 37 years. I was married to the father of my children (very unhappily) for twenty years and to this day I am still in love with my high school sweetheart, so I can certainly empathize. Just be sure that you try to be as realistic as possible when it comes to thinking of your options concerning the first love. It's been a long time and memories can become clouded over that length of time.
Don't downplay the importance of your current relationship. He is the father of your children, so there will always be that connection. I would suggest maybe spending a long, private weekend with each of them, taking at least a month between the two and see if that helps. You can never really thoroughly know a person romantically until you've lived with them, so maybe the get away weekends would give you some clarity. Good luck!

I think i am in a similar situation and some few comments will be of help. There is this girl who loved me and i loved her too while in high school, but we lost contact thereafter. we met again after 20 years when we are both 40yrs and married. The funny thing is that we are both not happy in our marriages and the love we had for one another has rekindled and in a more stronger way. What do we do coz we both have families but are seriously thinking of spending our remaining years together.

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